Hard to imagine Whereas pre-bourgeoisie ruling class social cohesions were the products of kinship, client-patron relations, and personal loyalties, bourgeoisie reading publics achieved a new kind of imagined solidarity through printed language, and Anderson explains that very well on the following passage: “An illiterate nobility could still act as a nobility. However, print-languages themselves did not create the nations. Anderson showed how print-capitalism, book-publishing, and the development of vernacular languages provided the tools people needed to imagine they were part of a much larger community of similar people, even though they might never meet. Factory-owner in Lille was connected to the factory-owner in Lyon only by reverberation. Anderson pointed to examples of Magyarizationâ (102), Japanificationâ 98) and Russificationâ 86) to prove that nationalism was used by empire-nations to conceal a âœdiscrepancy between nation and dynastic realmâ. Anderson suggests that one should not think of nationalism as an ideology like “fascism” or “liberalism”, but to relate it with “kinship” and “religion” in order to understand the similarity that groups of people have and why the territory that they live help one understand the borders that we have nowadays. The evidence compiled and presented by Anderson spans the globe and two hundred years of revolution, state-building, and decolonization. Q: What realizations did you get from it?
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Whereas pre-bourgeoisie ruling class social cohesions were the products of kinship, client-patron relations, and personal loyalties, bourgeoisie reading publics achieved a new kind of imagined solidarity through printed language, and Anderson explains that very well on the following passage: “An illiterate nobility could still act as a nobility. However, print-languages themselves did not create the nations. Anderson showed how print-capitalism, book-publishing, and the development of vernacular languages provided the tools people needed to imagine they were part of a much larger community of similar people, even though they might never meet. Factory-owner in Lille was connected to the factory-owner in Lyon only by reverberation. Anderson pointed to examples of Magyarizationâ (102), Japanificationâ 98) and Russificationâ 86) to prove that nationalism was used by empire-nations to conceal a âœdiscrepancy between nation and dynastic realmâ. Anderson suggests that one should not think of nationalism as an ideology like “fascism” or “liberalism”, but to relate it with “kinship” and “religion” in order to understand the similarity that groups of people have and why the territory that they live help one understand the borders that we have nowadays. The evidence compiled and presented by Anderson spans the globe and two hundred years of revolution, state-building, and decolonization.
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